Acting is fun for me and it doesn't really matter how, whether it's hard work or easy work, it's always fun.

Lose the chrome-plated sissy pistol and get yourself a Glock.

I always told my children when they whined... Only the boring are bored.

Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.

What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area.

All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.

No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.

Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.

I think that no matter how much you don't like yourself or the drama of your life you can still find some comedy in it.

Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive.

Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.

Love elevates the beauty of life.

Death is easy. To live is the most painful thing I could imagine and I'm weak and no longer willing to fight.

Will doesn't have to be struggle!

I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

Being successful is kind of dull.

Crowds respond to anthemic choruses.

The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things.

In France the men all live in cafes, the children are all put out to nurse, and the women, saving the respect of mademoiselle -- well, the less said about them the better.